The National Film Academy, on January 15, announced the nominations for the National Film Awards UK for 2018, and a tremendously pleasant surprise came for Thalapathy Vijay fans all over the world.
Mersal, Vijay's superhit film directed by Atlee, has been nominated as one of the candidates for the Best Foreign Language Film award - and is the only entry from India.
This is a massive leap for the film, and is another milestone after box office success and public reach.
At the Tamil Nadu box office, Vijay's Mersal continues to be the number one by a mile. Reports about this Vijay starrer's record-breaking collections are all over the media. The film has indeed taken the box-office by storm.
At the Chennai city box office, the big-budgeted Mersal gets the Blockbuster tag by the sheer weight of its collections derived by Behindwoods box office analysis wing. It is holding on pretty well even after the new releases.
By the end of its second weekend, Mersal has approximately grossed around Rs 11,96,78,578 from Chennai city alone. The net figure would be less as the tax rates for films are on the higher side lately.